Get your kicks on Route 66! If you're going hard enough left, you'll find yourself turning right...
Opened alongside Crush's Coaster in June 2007, this attraction is entirely unique to the park and the first to be based on Pixar's 2006 animated film Cars, which features an elaborate automobile-inhabited Route 66 town named Radiator Springs. Thanks to Disney magic, you're stepping into it right now...
With the film a huge hit amongst younger children and particularly boys, selling endless die-cast models and other merchandise, this unintimidating ride will be a dream come true for its fans, mixing all the clever car-themed locations of the town into a surprisingly small footprint with effortless style and art direction.
Compared to its nearest cousin at the resort, Mad Hatter's Tea Cups, this is a lavish and wonderful treatment for a "simple" spinning ride. However, beneath the façades, toward the back of the queue, the industrial, bare-bones style of the construction will likely deter this from becoming as similarly classic.
Don't be fooled, though — even for adults, this is a wildly fun attraction, overflowing with knowing nods to the film and its motor-crazed style and presenting a unique interchanging-turntable ride system which puts the wind in your hair and true American smile slap bang across your face, without fail.
